Mr. Palin said that “It is disgraceful that the American tax payer foots the whole bill for our parks while football and basketball facilities across the US benefit hugely from corporate sponsorship. Whether or not people and organizations fully understood the proposed changes, we know that people place great value on national parks and are insistent that they be celebrated as they belong to all of us. What is more American than the combination of great companies and great parks.”

Corporate logos will be placed on exhibits and waysides, but the new rules would not seriously change the look and feel of the parks. “Now that this policy has been finalized, park visitors soon could be greeted with various forms of advertisements, like a sign reading ‘brought to you by McDonald’s’ within a new visitor’s center at Yosemite, or ‘Budweiser’ in script on a park bench at Acadia.”